Last night I went to the Alhambra Theatre for a concert of Ludovic Beier's new trio with Angelo Debarre as a guest. It wasn't quite what you see in this video since Beier - on the occasion of Django's 100th anniversary - is revisiting the Django legacy through Brazilian Music. It took me a while to get used to the strange melange, and I can't say that I thought it always worked, but there were some amazing moments. I have to say though that my favourite parts were the few numbers that Debarre and Beier played as a duet. Quite magical,
Debarre's superb tone and amazing velocity, and Beier's ample register and no less astounding fluidity. Beier also played a kind of melodica with accordion buttons instead of keys, with a sound very close to that of a chromatic harmonica. And man was he fast on that too!
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